@musical_ipseity @BossCatholic @conan_esq I redefine terminology because I'm the Language Autist and am compelled to rectify names and stand in judgement over the dictionaries and vocabularies of men.
Do not misunderstand.
Important: if we had borrowed the word “mammal” from Latin during the Roman Empire instead of the 1700s, it’d be “mammol” in Old English and “mamble” today. Leave a comment if you like mambles.
The Spanish word “puño”, meaning “fist”, is clearly from the Latin word “pugnus” of the same meaning
From this we can conclude that “gn” in Iberia underwent the same sound change that it did in Italy to produce “balogna” and “lasagna”, and that “gn” is a valid alternative to “ñ”
When I was a tutor at a local college, I saw a woman use a calculator for an equation as simple as 2*3=6. It might’ve been 6/2=3 or 6/3=2, I don’t remember exactly.
Unrelated, but once when taking Organic Chem, we were having a review session before the final. Guy shows up 45 minutes late, dishelved and then asks "what do the double lines between the Carbon and Oxygen mean." The room went deathly silent 💀
Incredible that “now” didn’t change pronunciation even slightly for 6,000 years straight, from PIE down to Early Modern English, at which point it got obliterated by the Great Vowel Shift
Jesus isn’t God.
Jesus said the mustard seed is the smallest seed on earth
The smallest seeds on earth are orchid seeds.
Christians, what do you think?
when mount tambora in indonesia erupted in 1815, the volcano killed all 10,000+ tambora people and wiped out their culture entirely. their extinct language was uniquely non-austronesian & we only know about it from a 48-word vocabulary list collected by colonial officials in 1814
@RoboLarry2000@SwaineLevi@LibertyCappy Indeed, effeminacy is one of the primary significations of “gay”, which is in turn the primary reason “gay” doesn’t function as a generic insult.
>’Gay' in the derogatory term has no actual meaning other than being generically negative
No, calling something gay is not negative, as there is no negation involved.
@Machine_Baron@LibertyCappy 'Gay' in the derogatory term has no actual meaning other than being generically negative.
Racism is negative in the generic sense.
Ergo, racism is gay.